IM70.3-MEL-2026 · ST KILDA, AU

Daily training journal — building toward IRONMAN 70.3 Melbourne.

RACE START
2026-11-08 · 07:00 AEDT
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DAYS
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HOURS
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MINUTES
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SECONDS
SWIM
Port Phillip Bay, St Kilda
1.9km
BIKE
Beach Road · 2 laps
90km
RUN
Catani Gardens · half marathon
21.1km

Latest entry

When rest is the wiser choice

When the body says no

06:06. Delhi heat already up. I slide in and choose attention over ambition. Long exhale, patient catch, small kick. The lap before rhythm clicks is the test. Melbourne sits in the mind, not the lane. One thing done well, then the next. 🌤️

Sahil Mehta triathlon training image from Sat Jun 27 2026 00:00:00 GMT-0600 (Mountain Daylight Time)
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RUN · 21.13km ↗

Training log

Training log — last 14 days

VOLUME · 14D
109.5km
-17%
DURATION · 14D
13:58hrs
ROLLING
STREAK
7days
ACTIVE
WEEKLY VOLUME · 12W SWIM 5.3km BIKE 63km RUN 41km
W-11W-10W-09W-08W-07W-06W-05W-04W-03W-02W-01THIS

Why I'm doing this

I am not training to finish my race in November. I am training to be the best version of myself.

This is a public ledger. Every workout — the good, the boring, the ones I would rather not remember — gets logged here automatically from Strava. No filtering. No retroactive story arc.

I am 40-something, working a real job, training around it. The interesting stuff is not the race day. It is the ordinary morning before work. The lap before the rhythm clicks. The kilometre where the mind stops narrating and the body just gets on with it.

Melbourne is the deadline. Showing up is the point.

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